Optimizing calls to GSL functions

[Brian Gough]

At Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:01:10 +0200,
Jochen Küpper wrote:
> > __attribute__ ((pure), see "Function attributes" in the GCC manual  
> > for details.
> 
> Does GSL make use of this when compiled using GCC? Grepping the code  
> for "attribute" it looks like it doesn't.

No, currently it is not used.  

If there were any mistakes it could cause bugs that would be very
difficult to track down.  If a non-pure function is declared pure
there is no warning, for example.

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